Dollar General sued over unpaid lunch breaks

Collective action filed by 2 East TN store supervisors

5:22 AM,
Jul. 4, 2013

A Dollar General worker rings up purchases at the Madison store. The Goodlettsville-based retailer is the target of a collective-action suit filed by two East Tennessee workers who say they were forced to work during unpaid lunch periods.

Written by

Bobby Allyn
| The Tennessean

Two Dollar General Corp. employees from East Tennessee have filed a collective-action lawsuit in Nashville alleging that the nation's largest small-box discount retailer forced them to work during unpaid lunch periods, which is a violation of federal labor law.

The practice, according to the suit, is prevalent at other Dollar General stores around the country, including locations in Illinois, Missouri and South Carolina.

Rachel Buttry and Jennifer Peters both were supervisors at a Dollar General store in Bulls Gap, outside of Kingsport. Although their employee handbook states that ...